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“O, Our Master, what do you plan to do tomorrow?”

The Sheikh says:

“I know nothing about tomorrow or tonight because Allah said to me:

‘O Baýezit! There are various prayers and services rendered to my Treasury. If you wish to arrive before me, bring me something that is not already with me.’

I asked then:

‘O Allah, the Merciful! The Almighty! What is there that is not with you?’

Allah said:

‘Hopelessness and weakness, poverty and neediness, being offended and miserable are not with me or in my Treasury. Because these are not the things I need.’ Allah is the Undisturbed. Allah is Great. Allah is to be praised with good words only. Allah’s will is an obligation upon the Türkmen.”

Ba_ezit is a leading Türkmen figure in Islam. His thought is:

We are simple and mortal human beings. We are human beings sent to the world to live. We should live in line with high humanitarian principles and follow the way of the great nation called the Türkmens; we should make use of worldly benefits, keep our head high, make efforts and see the beauties of life according to the same principles.

Our great thinker, Magtymguly, is undoubtedly a great figure in the East. We should look to Magtymguly as a proper example at every step we take. Would it be proper for us to follow Magtymguly at this age in exactly the way he did, in that he adopted the sufi way, waking at dawn and cry and pray


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